US 12,312,992 B2Granted

Control device for internal combustion engine

AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorHideo Yamashita

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Abstract

The internal combustion engine includes a first oil jet that injects oil toward an inflow hole for flowing oil into the cavity, and a second oil jet that injects oil to a back surface so that the oil does not flow into the cavity. The control device of the internal combustion engine determines whether the temperature of the piston is equal to or higher than a specified temperature which is a threshold value for determining whether the piston has overheated to the extent that cooling is required. When the temperature of the piston is equal to or higher than the specified temperature, the control device cools the piston by using the first oil jet. When the temperature of the piston is lower than the specified temperature, the control device restricts the injection of the oil from the first oil jet and warms up the oil using the second oil jet.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A control device for an internal combustion engine, the control device comprising:

a first oil jet configured to spray, to cause oil to flow into a cavity extending through a piston, the oil toward a hole that is continuous with the cavity and is open to a back surface of the piston;
a second oil jet configured to spray the oil to a portion different from the hole on the back surface of the piston;
and
a processing circuit, wherein the processing circuit is configured to:
acquire a temperature of the piston;
determine whether the acquired temperature of the piston is equal to or higher than a predetermined temperature;
execute a first process for spraying the oil from the first oil jet when the acquired temperature of the piston is equal to or higher than the predetermined temperature;
and
execute a second process for restricting the spraying of the oil from the first oil jet and spraying the oil from the second oil jet when the acquired temperature of the piston is lower than the predetermined temperature.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.